IVAN LUKASPRAGUE GLOBAL POLICY

INSTITUE - GLOPOLIS

ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS AND NEW

SOVEREIGNTY CONCEPTS Speaker name 1

NEW GROWTH MODEL- ALTERNATIVE TO NEO-LIBERAL ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION DEVELOPMENT understood as1.STABLE CLIMATE AND ENERGY SECURITY2. FOOD SECURITY 3. INDUSTRIAL/SERVICES SECTOR

DEVELOPMENT AND STABLE FINANCEAND ITS ENEMIES ->

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STABLE CLIMATE AND ENERGY SECURITY• Energy security: access to energy sources needed

for sustainable livelihood is secured– currently 1,4 billion people in ssA without access to electricity

• access to energy sources at global level – threatened by oil peak

• Stable climate – threatened by high emission energy sources (oil, coal, gas )

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2. food security

• all people, at all times, have physical access to safe nutritious food which meets their dietary need and food preferences for active and healthy lives

Threatened by: - vagaries of international markets (price fluctuations)- prices at local level in ACP which go below local production costs (with also health

risks associated) as a result of increased global competition prices - general decline of local agri- usage of biofuels becasue of oil peak -> food shortages

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Economic and financial security

• industrial development and stable finance• Threatened by unfair competition as a result

of tariff reduction and unmanaged flows of hot money

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New sovereignty concepts, localization and policy space

• Sovereignty as an expression of basic freedom, human right and ultimate goal of development - as opposed to dependence, vulnerability and powerlessness

• Energy sovereignty • Food sovereignty • Economic sovereignty

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Energy sovereignty

• locally (regions, communities, families) available renewable energy sources, ability to control energy production and distribution processes

• right to decide whether they want to export their primary energy sources (raw materials, oil, coal

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Food sovereignty

• localization - eat what you produce, produce what you eat

• protection of local markets• development of small, agro-ecological farms

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Economic sovereignty

• infant industry protection• in case of finances the regulation is even more

in order – financial integration only for “advanced” states

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• the bottom line: re-embedding of economics into nations regions and local communities

• liberal international system is not beneficial for all members of the system

• certain conditions must be met to benefit from integration: relatively developed national economy, mobilization of internal resources, good regulatory framework

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EPAs and New sovereignty concepts

• Energy sovereignty- control over the export of raw materials will

be compromised; more trade will mean more transport and more emissions

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EPAs and Food sovereignty

• need for flexible level of protection: this is threatened by : • 1. prohibition of quantitative restrictions - the parties to the

EPAs must abolish all limits on imports by the time of signing the EPAs(e.g. Namibia threatened),

• 2. the safe guard measures (can be applied only once the injury happened) are much more restricted than in WTO provisions,

• 3. tariff standstill clause (applies also to sectors excluded from liberalization

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EPAs and economic sovereignty

• by reducing the tariffs local industries can not develop • food preparations, clothing, leather and foot wear, paper

products, chemicals, infant agro-based manufacturing industries

• Liberalization of financial services will lead to inflow of hot money (although this is not so much of an issue in underdeveloped and thinly integrated financial sectors in LDCs

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GENERAL POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF NEW GROWTH MODEL • mix of openness and regulation - policy space • mixture of local and global strategies • sequencing of liberalization • non-reciprocal liberalization (protection of regional and national markets) • substantial support measures/taking into account adjustment costs; alternative regional integration

(not open)• It is crucial that EU Member States work more closely with the Commission• need to raise the issue in the national parliaments • political will

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